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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Dec 01, 2008 12:54pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Baltimore Examiner |
| News Date | Monday, December 1, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | “I’m not glum.”
So said a determinedly cheerful Ed Crane, founder and president of the libertarian Cato Institute. Some pluck for a man who has seen many of his limited-government principles trampled as Washington bailed out the nation’s financial sector and took ownership stakes in private companies.
And incoming President Barack Obama is a passionate advocate for activist government, backed by large majorities of like-minded lawmakers in both chambers of Congress.
Yet Crane seems energized, rather than dejected, by this turn of affairs.
“I think it’s going to be a clearer battle,” Crane said two weeks after the elections. He said that the big-spending presidency of George W. Bush, unusual for a conservative government, muddied the waters, making it difficult to help the public understand the case for a restrained federal government.
“He was an unmitigated disaster from a limited-government standpoint,” Crane said. “I think John McCain would have been a very dangerous president, with his promiscuity in foreign affairs and with his lack of respect for the First Amendment. ... The Republicans thoroughly deserved to lose.” |
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